Education and linguistics: Jed Dews

[Melinda MartinBeltran]

Dear Jed Dews,

Sorry to write the entire list, but wasn’t sure how to contact you directly
via email. I’m interested in hearing more about your course “linguistics for
educators” and your paper as we are constantly thinking about this for our
CLAD course. Please see my email below.

 

Thank you!

Melinda

 

Melinda Martin-Beltran

melindam at stanford.edu

Stanford University School of Education

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of John Dews
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:24 AM
To: edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: Education and linguistics

 

Dear Mr. Hudson and the rest of the Ed-ling list,

      

         I very much enjoyed Mr. Hudson's paper on why education needs
linguistics and vice versa, and I couldn't agree more. We badly need such a
reform here in America as well, and many of our teacher education programs
are making some first steps in that direction. For instance, my university
will be offering a course this Fall entitled Linguistics for Educators that
is mandatory for all language arts education majors. I will be teaching in
this class, using materials and approaches synthesized from a wide range of
linguistic frameworks. I recently presented a paper at a linguistics
conference offering a new schema for L1 language arts teachers (which
naturally extends to L2 settings) that incorporates linguistics into the
content area methodologies associated with grammar, literature, and
composition instruction. Anyone interested in the abstract, notes, or PP is
welcome to e-mail me. 

       It is so wonderful to see others working in the same area, attempting
to apply linguistic resources in the classroom for the public at large.
Please keep up the work! Also, please continue to post such work in a forum
such as this so that we can all share our work. 

       Best wishes!

 
Jed Dews

 
Department of English

 
University of Alabama

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